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cot

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cot"

Translingual

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Symbol

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cot

  1. (trigonometry) cotangent

Usage notes

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The symbol cot is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard, which explicitly deprecates the older symbol ctg.

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English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Hindi खाट (khāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (khaṭṭā), from Sanskrit खट्वा (khaṭvā, “bedstead”).

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Cots for stranded passengers at O'Hare International Airport

cot (plural cots)

  1. (Canada, US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
    Synonym: camp bed
  2. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
    Synonym: crib
  3. (nautical, historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
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Translations
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folding bed — see camp bed
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English cot, cote, from Old English cot and cote (“cot, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutǭ (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), from Scythian (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”)). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote; more distantly related to cottage.

Noun

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cot (plural cots)

  1. (archaic) A cottage or small homestead.
    • 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC:
      the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm
    • 1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:
      One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot.
    • 1898, Ethna Carbery, "Roddy McCorley" (poem).
      Oh, see the fleet-foot hosts of men who speed with faces wan / From farmstead and from thresher's cot along the banks of Ban
  2. A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.
    Synonym: cote
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Etymology 3

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From Irish coite, coit (“small boat”), possibly from Medieval Latin cattia (“pan”).[1]

Noun

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cot (plural cots)

  1. A small, crudely-formed boat.

Etymology 4

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From dialectal cot, cote, partly from Middle English cot (“matted wool”), from Old English *cot, *cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“woolen fabric, wool covering”); and partly from Middle English cot, cote (“tunic, coat”), from Old French cote, from the same Germanic source (see English coat). Possibly influenced by English cotton.

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Noun

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cot (plural cots)

  1. A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.
    a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)
    a cot for a sore finger

Etymology 5

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Contraction of cot-quean.

Noun

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cot (plural cots)

  1. (obsolete) A man who does household work normally associated with women.
    • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 347:
      You know, that being an old bachelor, and somewhat of an epicure, he is at home, what the vulgar call a cot; and has laid down his spontoon for the tasting spoon, converted his sword into a carving knife, and his sash into a jelly bag.

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 coite”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin cubitum. Compare Daco-Romanian cot.

Noun

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cot n (plural coati or coate or coturi)

  1. elbow

Noun

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cot m (plural cots or coate or coati)

  1. an old measure, unit of length

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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From acotar.

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Adjective

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cot (feminine cota, masculine plural cots, feminine plural cotes)

  1. bowed, towards the ground
    • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 6, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
      Reia i reia amb el cap cot, contenint-se a mitges.
      He laughed and laughed with his head down, half restraining himself.

Etymology 2

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From cota (“coat”).

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Noun

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cot m (plural cots)

  1. (historical) long robe or overcoat with sleeves, worn by men and women

Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Latin quotus (“how much”).

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Noun

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cot m (plural cots)

  1. (historical, Catalan law) monetary penalty imposed by some Andorran councils

Etymology 4

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Inherited from Latin cōs.

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Noun

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cot m (plural cots)

  1. (obsolete) whetstone
    Synonym: pedra d'esmolar

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  • “cot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

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Noun

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cot m (plural cots)

  1. Alternative spelling of côt

Istro-Romanian

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Etymology

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From Latin cubitum.[1]

Noun

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cot n

  1. elbow

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  1. ^ https://www.dex.ro/cot

Megleno-Romanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin cubitum.[1]

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cot n

  1. elbow

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  • Atasanov, Petar (1990) Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske
  1. ^ https://www.dex.ro/cot

Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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Compare Persian جفت (joft).

Noun

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cot ?

  1. pair

Old English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutan (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, but possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota.[1]

However, compare Dutch and English hut, as well as Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), Scytho-Sarmatian *kuta, Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”).

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Noun

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cot n (nominative plural cotu)

  1. cottage

Declension

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Declension of cot (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative cot cotu
accusative cot cotu
genitive cotes cota
dative cote cotum

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: cot

References

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  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “kuta”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 313-14

Old French

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Noun

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cot oblique singular, f (oblique plural coz or cotz, nominative singular cot, nominative plural coz or cotz)

  1. Alternative form of cotte

Picard

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Etymology

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From Latin cattus.

Noun

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cot m (plural cots)

  1. cat

Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin cubitum, probably through a later Vulgar Latin contracted form *cubtu, perhaps becoming *cout in earlier Romanian. Compare Aromanian cot, Spanish codo; cf. also Albanian kut. Doublet of the neological borrowing cubitus.

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Noun

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cot n (plural coate)

  1. elbow

Declension

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Declension of cot
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cot cotul (niște) coate coatele
genitive/dative (unui) cot cotului (unor) coate coatelor
vocative cotule coatelor

Noun

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cot n (plural coturi)

  1. corner
  2. a bend of a river

Declension

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Declension of cot
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cot cotul (niște) coturi coturile
genitive/dative (unui) cot cotului (unor) coturi coturilor
vocative cotule coturilor

Noun

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cot m (plural coți)

  1. old unit of length, approx. 2 feet

Declension

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Declension of cot
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cot cotul (niște) coți coții
genitive/dative (unui) cot cotului (unor) coți coților
vocative cotule coților

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Romansch

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Noun

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cot m (plural cots)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun) rooster

Tyap

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Alternative forms

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  • cod, chot, chod

Etymology

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From English church.

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cot (plural ncot)

  1. church

Welsh

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From English coat.

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Noun

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cot f (plural cotiau)

  1. (South Wales) coat

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Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cot got nghot chot
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cot”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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